IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 22 August 2014
Friday, 22 August 2014
Daily Degree Days
Posted: 22 Aug 2014 05:39 AM
The big story this summer is the lack of heat leading to a deficit in growing degree day
accumulation. The featured chart displays the daily accumulation this year (dots) and the
long term climatology (red line and filled segments). The brown extent represents the
majority of the long term data range. You can see a number of days this year on the low
end of the daily distribution and only a handful of dots above average since the start of
July. Heat has arrived this week in Iowa, but next week looks to be back below average
for this time of year.
Voting:
Good = 19
Bad = 10
Abstain = 12
Tags: gdd
Voting:
Good = 19
Bad = 10
Abstain = 12
Tags: gdd